Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 27 April 2021 at 03:31.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1905".
Pink Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2021 after 26 days on 26 May 2021 at 11:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 May 2021 at 19:50
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2021 at 19:00
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2021 at 19:13
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 May 2021 at 11:14
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 263 / 1216
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 263 of Meeus index or 1216 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 263 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2021. It is 36 minutes longer than next lunation 264 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠154.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠178.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 27 April 2021 at 15:24 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 May 2021 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 364 502 km
Moon is 364 502 km (226 491 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 512 km (252 595 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 09:18 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 13 May 2021 at 10:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 18 April 2021 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.532°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.591° in the next southern standstill on 1 May 2021 at 09:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 11 May 2021 at 19:00 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.